Sidewalk to Nowhere

When it comes to my development environment, I tend to have a couple simple philosophies that guide what tools I use.

As some folks might know, my degree is not in Computer Science, but in English Creative Writing.

If you are anything like me, you probably have a lot of different places you need to log in with a username and password.

In case you’d missed it, Git 2.29 has recently been released with a full stage 4 SHA-256 implementation.

In my free time, I answer questions about Git on Stack Overflow, and I’ve seen a trend towards folks wanting to use hooks to enforce using various linting mechanisms or running test suites.

Recently, a new chosen-prefix attack on SHA-1 was announced.

As some folks know, I’m a contributor to Git.

One of the interesting security problems we see on the web today is how to deal with untrusted HTML.

On most Unix systems, there are two environment variables that control the user’s choice of text editor: EDITOR and VISUAL.